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Portrait of Tarquin Hall Photo: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images (2007)

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Hall, Tarquin

British author and journalist born in London. He had a varied education, attended a number of different educational institutions and took several degrees in various subjects. When he was eighteen, Tarquin Hall decided he wanted to become a journalist, and since his mother was American, he went to the United States where he worked in a hotel and at a ranch while he tried to pitch his articles to...

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Sean Dillon

Gender: Male

An IRA soldier, born 1952, who later changes sides and is a British agent in a long row of novels by Jack Higgins (pseudonym for Henry Patterson). As a young man, short, blond Sean Dillon has a brief acting career, and is an expert on disguise. He is also a skilled pilot and diver, as well as an expert marksman and linguist. As a British agent, he got Liam Devlin, another of Higgins’ heroes, as h...

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